Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.