When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.