Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Greed has no boundaries

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.