We work to earn our leisure.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.