Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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