... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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.