Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

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The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.