Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

The most universal quality is diversity.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.