Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

But the universe is infinite.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.