Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

A promise made must be a promise kept.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

A friend is a second self.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.