Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

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

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.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.