Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.