It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Authority is no source for Truth.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.