For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.