The passions are the voice of the body.
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.