The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.