False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Europe is a state with several provinces

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix