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

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

We work to earn our leisure.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.