Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.