That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?