Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.