Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

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.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.