People generally despise where they flatter.
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
A friend is another I.