Wickedness Is Nourished By Lust.

It Is Of The Nature Of Desire Not To Be Satisfied, And Most Men Live Only For The Gratification Of It.

For This Reason Poetry Is Something More Philosophical And More Worthy Of Serious Attention Than History.

Man Perfected By Society Is The Best Of All Animals; He Is The Most Terrible Of All When He Lives Without Law, And Without Justice.

But Is It Just Then That The Few And The Wealthy Should Be The Rulers? And What If They, In Like Manner, Rob And Plunder The People, - Is This Just?

Moral Qualities Are So Constituted As To Be Destroyed By Excess And By Deficiency . . .