Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

The probable is what usually happens.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

All communication must lead to change