Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies

All men by nature desire to know

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely

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

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses