All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and p….

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing..

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare..

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free..

God and all attributes of God are eternal..

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using….

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false..

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all p….

Desire is the essence of a man..

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secret….

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but agai….

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lie….

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things..

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection….

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety..

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bou….

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teac….

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of m….

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of m….

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power..

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone..