Politics: A Treatise on Government

The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life."

is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible.

gift of speech also evidently proves that man is a more social animal than the bees, or any of the herding cattle: for nature, as we say, does nothing in vain, and man is the only animal who enjoys it