The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Man by nature wants to know.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?