In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.