"Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is."

"Mais c'est une ignorance savante qui se connaît."

"Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak."

"One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person."

"La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première."

"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not …"

"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference..."

"I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal."

"The understanding and the feelings are moulded by intercourse; the understanding and feelings are corrupted by interc…"

"Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might."