He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body