All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Either a beast or a god.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.