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

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.