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

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

We are our own aptest deceiver.