When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.