Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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