She commands who is blest with indifference.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.