Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.