The general will is always right.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.