It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.