Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.