Quote collection
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"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 retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel."
"I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour."
"From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live."
"If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her."
"The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining."
"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."
"The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure."
"If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it."