Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

We are what we frequently do.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.