Desire is the essence of a man.

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.