We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Hope is a waking dream.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.