No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.