States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.