Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from b….

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature..

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and….

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work..

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn..

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wa….

We work to earn our leisure..

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we m….

A friend is another I..

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal..

A friend to all is a friend to none..

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud..

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to ….

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely..

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it..

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,….

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach..

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of ….

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals..