Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Either a beast or a god.