I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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