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

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.