Beauty is the gift of God

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.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.