"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"There is no true happiness without virtue."

"Let us then, in the first place, lay down as an incontestable maxim that the first impulses of nature are always right."

"It is by the passion of love that the sexes are drawn together, and by the passion of love that they are distinguished."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."