Quotes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Change in all things is sweet.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Bad men are full of repentance.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
All men by nature desire to know.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.