Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Money is the seed of money.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.