Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

Man is by nature a political animal.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.