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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Wit is educated insolence.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Change in all things is sweet.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
The law is reason, free from passion.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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