Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

A born king is a very rare being.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.