It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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.