He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.