It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.