Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

He who blushes is already guilty.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

A person who can break wind is not dead.