Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
The law always limits every power it gives.
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Membaca dan melenggang-lenggang dan bersantai dan mengobati, yang saya sebut berpikir, adalah kebahagiaan tertinggi saya.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
Kefasihan, pada nada tertinggi, menyisakan sedikit ruang untuk alasan atau refleksi, tetapi ditujukan sepenuhnya pada keinginan dan kasih sayang, memikat pendengar yang mau, dan menundukkan pemahaman mereka.
Identitas yang kita anggap sebagai hal-hal hanyalah identitas fiktif, yang didirikan oleh pikiran, bukan sifat khas milik apa yang kita bicarakan.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Oleh karena itu, orang yang bijaksana mengurangi keyakinannya pada bukti.
Bukan alasan yang merupakan pedoman kehidupan, tetapi adat.
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
Tradisi adalah petunjuk yang hebat untuk kehidupan manusia.