Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.