I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

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

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.