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.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.