The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Peace is more difficult than war.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.