Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

Praying is passionate faith.

Hatred can be cured by love.

Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline

People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.