Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.