Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.
The necessity of pursuing true Happiness is the foundation of liberty.
Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.
Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
To make a virtue out of necessity; that is the beautiful and great work.
Necessity teaches tolerance.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
