“Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.”

“Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.”

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“There are people you think you could trust but there are few you should beware most. They will stab you when you least expect it. Never underestimate the art of deception and those who master it. There could be pangs behind their smiles.”

“I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.”

“Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy, a rage for licentious pleasures, - if they stimulate the higher orders to a ruinous pomp and extravagance, - beware, citizens! beware of those corruptors! they only aim at purchasing slaves in order to exercise over them an arbitrary sway.”