That Which Is Excellent Endures.

The Worst Thing About Slavery Is That The Slaves Eventually Get To Like It.

No One Would Choose A Friendless Existence On Condition Of Having All The Other Things In The World.

Democracy Appears To Be Safer And Less Liable To Revolution Than Oligarchy. For In Oligarchies There Is The Double Danger Of The Oligarchs Falling Out Among Themselves And Also With The People; But In Democracies There Is Only The Danger Of A Quarrel With The Oligarchs. No Dissension Worth Mentioning Arises Among The People Themselves. And We May Further Remark That A Government Which Is Composed Of The Middle Class More Nearly Approximates To Democracy Than To Oligarchy, And Is The Safest Of The Imperfect Forms Of Government.

He Who Is To Be A Good Ruler Must Have First Been Ruled.

We Laugh At That Which We Cannot Bear To Face.