The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
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.