We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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?

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.