What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.