An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Virtue has needs of limits.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.