No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.