Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.