A house that has a library in it has a soul.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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.