That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Sacrifice life to truth.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.