"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"... many Europeans today go to Pelasgians, who are no less distant or savage, and for equally slight gains, to discov…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."

"A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men li…"

"At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; …"

"Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates…"

"The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into vic…"

"Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity."