You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.