Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.