Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Peace is more difficult than war.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.