Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate

The Mathematical Sciences Particularly Exhibit Order Symmetry And Limitations; And These Are The Greatest Forms Of The Beautiful.

Boundaries Don't Protect Rivers, People Do.

Moral Qualities Are So Constituted As To Be Destroyed By Excess And By Deficiency . . .

The Life Of Theoretical Philosophy Is The Best And Happiest A Man Can Lead. Few Men Are Capable Of It And Then Only Intermittently. For The Rest There Is A Second-best Way Of Life, That Of Moral Virtue And Practical Wisdom.

No One Would Choose A Friendless Existence On Condition Of Having All The Other Things In The World.