Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Posterity is always just.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Every artists wants to be applauded

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

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.