A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.