Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?