In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.