A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. |
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. |
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it |
All wealth is the product of labor. |
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. |
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. |
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression |
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression |
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. |
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected |
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. |
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. |
For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law |
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. |
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. |