Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
It is a human tendency “to measure truth and error by our capacity.”
Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.