MacTutor
All errors in government and in society are based on philosophic errors, which in turn are derived from errors in natural science.
Ideas of uniformity, of regularity, please all minds, especially just minds. ... uniformity of measures can only displease those lawyers who fear to see the number of lawsuits diminished, and those traders who fear a loss of profit from anything which renders commercial transactions easy and simple ... A good law ought to be good for all men, as a good proposition in geometry is good for all men.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
An enlightened people entrust their interests to educated men, but an ignorant people necessarily become the dupe of deceivers who, whether they flatter them or oppress them, make them the instrument of their projects and the victim of their personal interests."