Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.