The End Of Labor Is To Gain

All Friendly Feelings Toward Others Come From The Friendly Feelings A Person Has For Himself.

Happiness May Be Defined As Good Fortune Joined To Virtue, Or A Independence, Or As A Life That Is Both Agreeable And Secure.

Hence Poetry Is Something More Philosophic And Of Graver Import Than History, Since Its Statements Are Of The Nature Rather Of Universals, Whereas Those Of History Are Singulars.

Great Men Are Always Of A Nature Originally Melancholy.

Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate Into Despotisms.