Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

All things are full of gods.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.