The Ideal State Is That In Which

In Giving Advice Seek To Help, Not To Please, Your Friend.

An Unlucky Rich Man Is More Capable Of Satisfying His Desires And Of Riding Out Disaster When It Strikes, But A Lucky Man Is Better Off Than Him...he Is The One Who Deserves To Be Described As Happy. But Until He Is Dead, You Had Better Refrain From Calling Him Happy, And Just Call Him Fortunate.

Poets Tell Many Lies.

Men Keep Their Agreements When It Is An Advantage To Both Parties Not To Break Them; And I Shall So Frame My Laws That It Will Be Evident To The Athenians That It Will Be For Their Interest To Observe Them.

Society Is Well Governed When Its People Obey The Magistrates, And The Magistrates Obey The Law.