We can't learn without pain.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.