Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

God created women only to tame men.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.