"The art of war is natural."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

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

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."

"The citizen in an absolute sense is not defined by any other thing so much as by his participation in the judicial and executive power."