The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

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

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.