When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.