...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.