Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.