Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.