It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

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.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?