When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

Omelettes are not made without breaking eggs

The revolution ate its children

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.