Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.