The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.