There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.