Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.