No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue