Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Those who fear men like laws.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

One can not be just if one is not humane.