We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
Philosophy can make people sick.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.