Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.