For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Happy people think about how to help others and not how to get from others.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!