To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

The greatest victory is over self.