"The father habitually tries to resemble the child..."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a plentiful draught, punishes and insults them; equality and fraternity of governors and governed is the approved principle…"

"I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort."