No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.