Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.