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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.