There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

A man is the origin of his action.