Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.