The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.