It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

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.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Nature itself cannot err

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.