Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

He who hath many friends hath none.

 The weak loo for scapegoats. The strong defend and justify their actions.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.