A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.