Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

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