Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

What we expect, that we find.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

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