Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.