“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”

“The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.”

“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”

“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”