It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.