If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."