An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.