We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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

Evil draws men together.

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

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

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

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.