Our actions determine our dispositions.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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