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

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.