The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it