The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.