When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.