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

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.