Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

It needs courage to be afraid.