The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Memory is the scribe of the soul.