“ It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ”

“ 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. ”

“ He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ”

“ Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ”

“ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ”

“ For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. ”

“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ”

“ Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ”

“ Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. ”

“ All men by nature desire knowledge. ”