Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Speech happens to not be his language.