We are all guilty of the good we did not do

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.