Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

The greatest victory is over self.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.