The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

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

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.