Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
Dare to think for yourself.
I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.