Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

No science ever defends its first principles.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.