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. |
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself |
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body |
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. |
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. |
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. |
Money is the seed of money. |
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. |
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves |
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it |
One is only happy before he is happy |
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. |
Our greatest evil flows from ourselves |
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. |
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is |