If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Be my brother or I will kill you.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.