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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.