One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

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

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".