Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

A promise made must be a promise kept.

The probable is what usually happens.