Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.