When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

There is honor in being a dog.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.