The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Democracy passes into despotism.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.