Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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But of all the things which I have mentioned that which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form...
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Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussi...
