“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

“Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

“Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.”

“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”