You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down$$$ the other is pulling up.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Self-esteem is a balloon filled with wind$$$ from which great tempests surge when it is pricked.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible$$$ let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Isn't there a pleasure in criticising everything and discovering faults where other men detect beauties?

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours$$$ kindle it at home$$$ communicate it to others$$$ and it becomes the property of all.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.