A person's life persuades better than his word.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.