Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.