The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Hatred is settled anger.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Empire and liberty.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Like associates with like.
Ability without honor is useless.
