Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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?

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.