“ Well begun is half done. ”

“ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

“ The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ”

“ Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ”

“ Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ”

“ Friendship is essentially a partnership. ”

“ Bad men are full of repentance. ”

“ A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ”

“ The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ”

“ We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ”