All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.