Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.