Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.