The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.