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

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

The truth brings no man a fortune.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

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