The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

He who hath many friends hath none.