No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.