Самата природа мъдро се погрижва хорските глупости да бъдат преходни, а книгите ги правят безсмъртни. - Montesquieu

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.