"The slave is a living tool."

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both the other classes."

"The many are more incorruptible than the few."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."