Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Posterity is always just.

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?

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

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.