Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.