I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.