He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.