on 15-Jun-2018 (Fri)

One general rule should apply to marriage: we should seek to contract the alliance that will benefit the state, not the one that we personally find most alluring. Everyone is naturally drawn to the person most like himself, and that puts the whole state off balance, because of discrepancies in wealth and character, and these in c turn generally lead, in most states, to results we certainly don’t want to see in ours.

when he’s drunk a man reels about all over the place and bumps into things, and a raging passion invades his body and soul; this means that d as a sower of his seed a drunkard will be clumsy and inefficient, and he’ll produce unbalanced children who are not to be trusted

we should certainly punish slaves if they deserve it, and not spoil them by simply giving them a warning, as we would free men. Virtually everything you say to a slave should be an order, and you should never become at all 778 familiar with them

leaving women to do what they like is not just to lose half b the battle (as it may seem): a woman’s natural potential for virtue is inferior to a man’s, so she’s proportionately a greater danger, perhaps even twice as great

When children have been produced as demanded by law, if a man e has intercourse with another woman, or a woman with another man, and the other party is still procreating, they must suffer the same penalty as was specified for those who are still having children