Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

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

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.