Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
From Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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