From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.