Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.