Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.