This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.