Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

People generally despise where they flatter.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.