The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .