Necessity Embitters The Evils Which It Cannot

With Kings, Nations, And Private Individuals, The Strongest Assume To Themselves Rights Over The Weakest, And The Same Rule Is Followed By Animals, By Matter, By The Elements, So That Everything Is Performed In The Universe By Violence. And That Order Which We Blame With Some Appearance Of Justice Is The Most Universal, Most Absolute, Most Unchangeable, And Most Ancient Law Of Nature.

The Greatest Evil That Fortune Can Bring To Men Is To Endow Them With Feeble Resources And Yet To Make Them Ambitious.

Servitude Degrades People To Such A Point That They Come To Like It.

Learn To Overrule Minor Interest In Favor Of Great Ones, And Generously To Do All The Good The Heart Prompts; A Man Is Never Injured By Acting Virtuously.

Whoever Has Seen The Masked At A Ball Dance Amicably Together, And Take Hold Of Hands Without Knowing Each Other, Leaving The Next Moment To Meet No More, Can Form An Idea Of The World.