Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

For good is simple, evil manifold.