No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.