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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
We lose all that time which we might employ better.
My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.