Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.