Emotion has taught mankind to reason.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Lazy people are always looking for something to do.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other wi…

Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments, Mais, quelque autorite que sur eux elle ait prise, Elle n'y regne pas, elle les tyrannise.