La Chose La Plus Importante A' Toute

In Proportion As Our Own Mind Is Enlarged We Discover A Greater Number Of Men Of Originality. Commonplace People See No Difference Between One Man And Another.

Let Us Imagine A Number Of Men In Chains And All Condemned To Death, Where Some Are Killed Each Day In The Sight Of The Others, And Those Who Remain See Their Own Fate In That Of Their Fellows And Wait Their Turn, Looking At Each Other Sorrowfully And Without Hope. It Is An Image Of The Condition Of Man.

Nothing Is So Conformable To Reason As To Disavow Reason.

All The Maxims Have Been Written. It Only Remains To Put Them Into Practice.

Passion Cannot Be Beautiful Without Excess; One Either Loves Too Much Or Not Enough.