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

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.