"Nature has made me different from all other men. I alone know my heart, and I alone know men. He who dares to say that he is like me is a liar."

"To be well governed, a state must be small."

"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."

"There is no true happiness without virtue."

"Luxury, which nourishes a hundred poor people in our cities, starves ten thousand in the countryside."