They who are to be judges must also be performers.

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.