To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.