“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.

“We are, by nature, so futile that distraction alone can prevent us from dying altogether.”

“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”

“The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.”

“Where we can prevent predation without occasioning as much or more suffering than we would prevent, we are obligated to do so by the principle that we are obligated to alleviate avoidable animal suffering. Where we cannot prevent or cannot do so without occasioning as much or more suffering than we would prevent, that principle does not obligate us to attempt to prevent predation.”

“Rational beings despise nothing so much as that magnanimity that they themselves feel incapable of.”

“3660. Nothing costs so much as what is given us.”

“The ideal universe is a universe so ordered or natured as to allow its inhabitants to understand and dominate it sufficient to satisfy their desires, and inhabited by beings with desires so poised and assorted that there is not only not mutual inhibition of desires, but such a dovetailing and intertwining of the consciousnesses that there is mutual aid in the satisfaction of desire—a universe responsive to the whims of its inhabitants, and inhabited by beings socially harmonious and helpful.”