Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Money is the seed of money.
Finance is a slave's word.
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.
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.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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.
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.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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.
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
Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.
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