Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.