Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

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.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess