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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

It is true that there must be inequality among men; but if this be conceded, the door is opened not only to the highest power, but to the highest tyranny.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Reason commands us far more than imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Contradiction is a bad sign of truth; several things which are certain are contradicted; several things which are false pass without contradiction. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.

Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.

Life is a dream a little less inconstant.

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

All good maxims are in the world. We only need apply them.

We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

When we would pursue virtues to their extremes on either side, vices present themselves insensibly there, in their insensible journeys towards the infinitely little; and vices present themselves in a crowd towards the infinitely great, so that we lose ourselves in them, and no longer see virtues.