It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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?

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act