A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.