Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.