It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.