Those who attempt to level never equalize
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.