Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.