The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Those who can command themselves command others.