While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.