Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
Money is the seed of money.
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
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