Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
A selfish man is a thief.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
