Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Adventure is worthwhile.