No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.