And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Our civilization is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley’s can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity.
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
