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.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I only see clearly what I remember.

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

Trust your heart rather than your head.