We make war that we may live in peace.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.