It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

We work to earn our leisure.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.