We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.