No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

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.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.