There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.