...the Gods too love a joke.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.