Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.