Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.
Tyrants surround themselves with wicked men because they like to be flattered, and no man of elevated spirit will flatter them.
The only stable state is the one in which all citizens are equal before the law.
The city (polis) is one of the things that exist by nature; and man is, by nature, a political animal.
All governments die from the exaggeration of their principle.
How pleasant it would be a world in which no one was allowed to operate in the stock market unless they had passed an exam in Greek economics and poetry, and in which politicians were required to have a solid knowledge of history and modern novels!
As fear is the greatest torment of tyrants, the most unforgivable crime in their eyes is to make them feel fear.