Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war