Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in ever…

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Me tenant comme je suis, un pied dans un pays et l'autre en un autre, je trouve ma condition tres heureuse, en ce qu'elle est libre.

By speaking of space as an Idea, I intend to imply...that the apprehension of objects as existing in space, and of the relations of position, &c., prevailing a…

But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes That look on it! the diverse things they see!

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.