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

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

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

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.