Evil draws men together.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.