Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.