 Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. |
| The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. |
| Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. |
| It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. |
| Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. |
| A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. |
| The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. |
| Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. |
| The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. |
| One man cannot practice many arts with success. |
| This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. |
| Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. |
| We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. |
| You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. |
| The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. |
| No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. |
| Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. |
| Philosophy begins in wonder. |
| When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. |
| Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. |
