It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

A person hears only what they understand.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

The threshold is the place of expectation.