If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

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.