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.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

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

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

The landscapist lives in silence.