Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.