A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty
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Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate an...
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions tha...
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without havi...
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, r...
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Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things...
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...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the firs...
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Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than...
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Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.
