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

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.