Men Of Reason Have Endured;men Of Passion

Calumny Is Like The Wasp Which Worries You, And Which It Is Not Best To Try To Get Rid Of Unless You Are Sure Of Slaying It; For Otherwise It Returns To The Charge More Furious Than Ever.

If It Were Not For The Government, We Should Have Nothing To Laugh At In France.

In Order To Forgive Reason For The Evil It Has Wrought On The Majority Of Men, We Must Imagine For Ourselves What Man Would Be Without His Reason. 'tis A Necessary Evil.

In Great Matters, Men Behave As They Are Expected To; In Little Ones, As They Would Naturally

Too Elevated Qualities Often Unfit A Man For Society. We Do Not Go To Market With Ingots, But With Silver And Small Change.