The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.