Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.