To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
