If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.