Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.