We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.