It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Justice is the truth in action.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Fear loves the idea of danger.