I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

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

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

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.