The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.