I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.