Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
You should never think without an image.
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.