Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.