Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.