For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
A man’s happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
For good is simple, evil manifold.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...
The first principle of all action is leisure.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
Nothing is what rocks dream about.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not.
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.