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Nature abhors annihilation.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.