There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.