A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.