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

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.