Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.