Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

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