Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?