No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.