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

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

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.