For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

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.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.