It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.