Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.