Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

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

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.