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

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.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.