Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.