To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

Minds differ still more than faces.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.