Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.