As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.