Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.