It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.