Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.