...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Every artists wants to be applauded
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.