Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

God is truth and light his shadow.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his 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.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.