“The truth brings no man a fortune.”

“Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.”

“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

“Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.”