Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development