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

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.