All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.