In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.