Hükümdar ya da yasacı olsaydım, ne demek gerektiğini söyleyip vaktimi boşuna harcamaz, ya yapacağımı yapar ya da susardım. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ne détruisons point les instruments du bonheur parce que les méchants s'en servent quelquefois à nuire.

History tells us, that from the moment when the moral forces on which a civilisation rested have lost their strength, its final dissolution is brought about by those unconscious and brutal crowds known, justifiably enough, as barbarians.

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.