Towns were the nursery of freedom.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.