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It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Opinion is the queen of the world.

He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.