One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.