“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.