We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
We must become just be doing just acts.
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.