While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

You are what you repeatedly do

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.