Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

All men by nature desire knowledge.