Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.