Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.