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.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

No science ever defends its first principles.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.