To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. And this is the origin of war,

Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge;

he ought to have preferred seeming to being.

Thrasymachus—not right is the interest of the stronger, but right is the necessity of the weaker.

more than human virtue is needed to save a man, and that he only praises justice who is incapable of injustice.

back;—might is still right, but the might is the weakness of the many combined against the strength of the few.

There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.

Let a man do his duty first, without asking whether he will be happy or not, and happiness will be the inseparable accident which attends him. 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.'

Appearance is master of truth and lord of happiness.