» Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
» The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
» A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
» The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
» A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
» If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
» The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
» If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
» Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
» The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.