The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

Covenants without swords are but words.