A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

The gods too are fond of a joke.