A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.