That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.