Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

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

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.