Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.