No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.