Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.