Ethics
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book III, Chapter XXX – It is Necessary for a Citizen Who Proposes to Use his Authority to do any Good Work in a Republic First to Extinguish All Envy: "... as long as such men see that your reputation is greater than theirs, they..."
- Horace, Odes, Book II, Ode 15: “Iam Pauca Aratro”: "Now regal villas will leave few acres for ploughing; on all sides ornamental ponds will..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 132: "Usurpers always bring about or choose disjointed times, in order to pass, under the cover..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 57: "Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of..."
- Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number, Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 1: "For further proof, reference may be made to the general, indeed the all-comprehensive, principle of..."
- Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number, Section II. First Principles Enumerated — The Proper End of Government: "The right and proper end of government in every political community, is the greatest happiness..."
- Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number, Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 2: "By the principle of self-preference, understand that propensity in human nature, by which, on the..."
- Goethe, Faust, VI, Witch’s Kitchen, lines 2353-61: "Betake thyself to yonder field, There hoe and dig, as thy condition; Restrain thyself, thy..."