Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.