Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The passions are the voice of the body.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.