Social man lives constantly outside himself.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
A person who can break wind is not dead.
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.