Most people would rather give than get affection.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.