Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Everyone has as much right as he has might.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.