当一大群人同意并契约时，就会成立一个共和国，每个人都与每个人达成共识，任何一个人或一群人被多数人授权，成为他们所有人的代表。

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.

写作是一种疾病，而出版则是它的症状。

良心和怯懦其实是一回事。

找到自己的最好方法是在为他人服务中迷失自己。

把守外海不如把守海口，把守海口不如把守内海。

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.

The natural and moral world is the two-fold object of man's rational care.