I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

All soils are not fertile.