Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?