"In the immense sphere of living things, the obvious rule is violence, a kind of inevitable frenzy which arms all thin…"

"Man is an enigma whose knot has not ceased to occupy observers. The contradictions that he contains astonish reason a…"

"In the Koran as in the Bible, politics is divinized, and human reason, crushed by the religious ascendancy, cannot in…"

"Burke said with a depth that it is impossible to admire enough that art is man’s nature: yes, undoubtedly, man with a…"

"If sovereignty is not anterior to a people, at least these two ideas are collateral, since it takes a sovereign to ma…"

"Men never respect what they have made themselves. This is why an elective king never possesses the moral power of a h…"

"Creating difficulties for himself for the pleasure of resolving them is a strange human mania."

"The wiser nations are, the more public spirit they possess, the more perfect their political constitution, the fewer …"

"Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for preserving any p…"

"Nations are barbarian in their infancy but not savage. The barbarian is a proportional mean between the savage and th…"