"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

"Let the punishment match the offense."

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."

"Laws are silent in times of war."

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things."

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."

"We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive."

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

"He who despises himself, respects himself as one who despises."