Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.