Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

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, . .

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.