Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

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.

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.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

I call him free who is led solely by reason.