Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

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".

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.