We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.