Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.