Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
I felt before I thought
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.