Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.