There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

The world is governed by opinion.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.