Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Man is a social animal.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.