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

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.