Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

History is a thing of the past!

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.  

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.