Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.