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.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.