Both Oligarch And Tyrant Mistrust

For Contemplation Is Both The Highest Form Of Activity (since The Intellect Is The Highest Thing In Us, And The Objects That It Apprehends Are The Highest Things That Can Be Known), And Also It Is The Most Continuous, Because We Are More Capable Of Continuous Contemplation Than We Are Of Any Practical Activity.

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

Today, See If You Can Stretch Your Heart And Expand Your Love So That It Touches Not Only Those To Whom You Can Give It Easily, But Also To Those Who Need It So Much.

A Friend Of Everyone Is A Friend Of No One

A City Is Composed Of Different Kinds Of Men; Similar People Cannot Bring A City Into Existence.