And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

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

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.