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" Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. "

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" He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. "

" It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. "

" A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. "

" In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. "

" I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. "

" If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. "

" The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. "

" Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. "

" No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. "

" Friendship is essentially a partnership. "

" Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. "

" The energy of the mind is the essence of life. "

" Nature does nothing in vain. "

" Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. "

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

" 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. "

" The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. "

" Law is mind without reason. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

" It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. "

" The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. "

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. "

" Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. "

" 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. "

" Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "

" Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. "

" For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. "

" Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. "