Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.