"The female is also more given to imitation and more imitative, and more apt to mimic."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

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

"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."

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