It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Necessity is stronger than duty.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
The best ideas are common property.