The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

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.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.