No science ever defends its first principles.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Man by nature wants to know.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.