If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

One has no friend who has many friends.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.