There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.