The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber