With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.