In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

To perceive is to suffer.