When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.