True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.