An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Sacrifice life to truth.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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