What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it