Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.
No man may make another free.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.