To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.