We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

History is the study of the world's crime

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.