While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

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

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.