Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.