Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
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.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.