Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Happiness is activity.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.