Philosopher

Politisi juga tidak punya waktu luang, karena mereka selalu mengincar sesuatu di luar kehidupan politik itu sendiri, kekuasaan dan kemuliaan, atau kebahagiaan.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The law is reason, free from passion.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Hope is a waking dream.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Martabat tidak terdiri dari memiliki kehormatan, tetapi dalam layak mendapatkannya.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Ingin menjadi teman adalah pekerjaan yang cepat, tetapi persahabatan adalah buah yang lambat matang.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.