If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.