When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.