Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.