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

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

The beginning is half of the whole.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.