“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.

Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

You’re love is nothing I can’t fight. Can’t sleep with a man who dims my shine.