It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.