It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.