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.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Better is the enemy of good.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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