No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

You are what you repeatedly do