To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Falsehood has a perennial spring.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of al…

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent…

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, a…

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.