A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.