To The Sober Person Adventurous

True Happiness Flows From The Possession Of Wisdom And Virtue And Not From The Possession Of External Goods.

In A Polity, Each Citizen Is To Possess His Own Arms, Which Are Not Supplied Or Owned By The State.

It Is Easier To Get One Or A Few Of Good Sense, And Of Ability To Legislate And Adjudge, Than To Get Many.

For That Which Has Become Habitual, Becomes As It Were Natural.

To Give Away Money Is An Easy Matter And In Any Man's Power. But To Decide To Whom To Give It And How Large And When, And For What Purpose And How, Is Neither In Every Man's Power Nor An Easy Matter.