I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.