A friend to all is a friend to none..

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud..

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to ….

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely..

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it..

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,….

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach..

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of ….

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals..

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies..

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions..

All things are full of gods..

Teaching is the highest form of understanding..

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (….

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth..

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice..

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had..

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless..

Friends enhance our ability to think and act..