Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
One can buy anything with money except morality.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.