The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought...
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.