Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.