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

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.