Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms..

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest..

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law..

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy..

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own..

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring wha….

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them..

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak..

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their devel….

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter..

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this..

Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be n….

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers..

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless..

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate..

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom..

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head..

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say..

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child..

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few..