The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
The passions are the voice of the body.
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.