All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Talent is culture with insolence.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.