"It is precisely because the force of things always tends to destroy equality that the force of legislation must always tend to maintain it."

"There are no morals in nature."

"A nation can only be happy when it has a good government, and a good government can only be had when the people are well educated."

"Nature has made me different from all other men. I alone know my heart, and I alone know men. He who dares to say that he is like me is a liar."

"The greatest evil is not to be good, but to be bad when one has the power to be good."