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

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

I only see clearly what I remember.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.