- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
- Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
BONUS
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
1 comment:
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
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Sorry, but there are no good people.
We need laws to keep us 'in-line.'
Unfortunately, it is human nature to wink one's eye at the law when it suits us.
Take a look at the laws protecting the environment. Without these, America would be as pollutesd as China.
-Mammoth
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