In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.