When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Science is nothing but perception.