In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

All our endeavours or desires so follow from the necessity of our nature, that they can be understood either through it alone, as their proximate cause, or by …

It is before all things useful to men to associate their ways of life, to bind themselves together with such bonds as they think most fitted to gather them all…

In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.