If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her..

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our….

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it..

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retenti….

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct..

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand..

Cities are the sinks of the human race..

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor..

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour..

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness..

The universe was born restless and has never since been still..

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice..

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature..

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see..

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous..

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!".

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful..

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure..

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso).

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him..

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good..