The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Law is mind without reason.

To perceive is to suffer.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.