Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.