Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.