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.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

Man by nature wants to know.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.