Everyone honors the wise.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.