Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.