Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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