Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Talent is culture with insolence.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.