The Basis Of A Democratic

The Tyrant, Who In Order To Hold His Power, Suppresses Every Superiority, Does Away With Good Men, Forbids Education And Light, Controls Every Movement Of The Citizens And, Keeping Them Under A Perpetual Servitude, Wants Them To Grow Accustomed To Baseness And Cowardice, Has His Spies Everywhere To Listen To What Is Said In The Meetings, And Spreads Dissension And Calumny Among The Citizens And Impoverishes Them, Is Obliged To Make War In Order To Keep His Subjects Occupied And Impose On Them Permanent Need Of A Chief.

Moral Qualities Are So Constituted As To Be Destroyed By Excess And By Deficiency . . .

The Best Way To Avoid Envy Is To Deserve The Success You Get.

Metaphor Is Halfway Between The Unintelligible And The Commonplace.

The Ideal Man Is His Own Best Friend And Takes Delight In Privacy.