It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.