In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.