The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.