Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Perception starts with the eye.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Through discipline comes freedom.