Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.