From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.