It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.