In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.