The probable is what usually happens.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .