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

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Man by nature wants to know.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.