A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might commun….

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases..

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices..

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature its….

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist..

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master..

Ability without honor is useless..

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense..

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity..

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise..

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vo….

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us..

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.].

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye sho….

Generosity should never exceed ability..

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass..

Justice renders to every one his due..

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind..

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper..