A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favourable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity