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.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
Cities are the sinks of the human race.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.