Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.