Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Education is the best provision for old age.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.