Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.