See you in Heaven, I am tired.
Category: Ethics
TO MR. PAILLOTET – 4
What has been published offers enough material for dissent without having to attack in advance what has not been published yet.
FOUR LETTERS TO MRS. SCHWABE – 2
We should moan about a country that discourages honesty.
LETTERS TO MR. DOMENGER – 17
When expressed through great meticulous details, devotions forget the true morals.
LETTERS TO MR. DOMENGER – 11
The stupid impudence of ********* is beyond belief…… These people entertain themselves by riding roughshod over all rules of representative government, be it the constitution, the laws or the decrees;
LETTERS TO MR. DOMENGER – 9
The poor asks for more than what is just while the rich does not even accept to grant what is just.
LETTERS TO MR. DOMENGER – 7
Having my conscience clear that I have performed my duty, a failure could be upsetting at first. I shall get over it quickly, I hope.
LETTERS TO MR. HORACE SAY – 5
Speculation would have moved both extremes closer to an average.
LETTERS TO MR. HORACE SAY – 4
The following thought must be submitted to the public: that the State guarantees security to each and everyone but does not meddle in anything else.
LETTERS TO MR. HORACE SAY – 1
As soon as a sparkle keeps shining, there is no cause for despair.
LETTER TO MR. LAURENCE
It is a principle that taxes are deducted from revenues.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
Don’t we look like this cook who, upon going out, said to the cat: “Look after the ortolans properly and, if the dog came, show your claws”.
APRIL 1849 MANIFESTO
Researching the causes of suffering, tending to it with all remedies that are compatible with justice, this is a duty that is as sacred as maintaining order.
A MYSTIFICATION
The way I am exhausting them is so subtle that it remains beyond them. However, their sight is dazzled by the grand works I make them do.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – III
Two systems confront each other – both exude from sincere convictions, both aim at the general good.
LETTER TO MR. JOBARD
If I had been the first man to wear clogs, should all men on the surface of the earth be compelled to go barefoot by law?
THE FREE-TRADER KING
We would like that each citizen, in order to improve his own destiny, would count a bit more on himself and a bit less on the public coffers.
TO THE EDITOR OF LE NATIONAL – I
Should we kill them in order to teach them how to live?
TO THE TRADERS OF LE HAVRE – II
It is therefore easier and more loyal to assert the principle of commercial freedom first.
THE CORN LAWS AND THE WAGES OF WORKERS
Do the supporters of free-trade predict that, under the reign of their principles, there will not be any wage fluctuations anymore?
TRADE FREEDOM
Will the public eventually not open their eyes upon this shameful myth they are fooled by?
ABOUT A NEW HIGH SCHOOL TO BE FOUNDED IN BAYONNE
The Romans lived through extorsion while we live trough industry.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We proclaim our deep respect for the property of this class of people who is the most fervent in opposing our demands.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
We are free men. Why would we not have free-trade?
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Party bias is the greatest scourge of constitutional nations.
RESPONSE TO VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS
The worst in these assertions is that those who allow themselves to submit them do not even believe them.
THE WORLD UPSIDE-DOWN
What! Is this the way the question of sustenance is dealt with?
ABOUT A PLAN TO FIGHT SUGGESTED TO THE FREE-TRADE ASSOCIATION
Our weapon is not cunning tricks but reason and good faith.
FREE TRADE
Our demand is that our fellow countrymen, who are free to work, be free to trade the fruits of their labour.
ABOUT THE EULOGY FOR MR. CHARLES COMTE
One can conceive that a man as described by Mr. Mignet may have rejected these vain ornaments which, in his mind, are traps for the reader when they are not traps for the writer himself.
ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF LAND TAX
What is the surest sign that men are preserving themselves and prospering? It is their number and their population.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
Let’s try and deserve people’s trust rather than forfeit it.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
As for me, I had to be disliked by both parties for the simple fact that I was more busy fighting their mistakes than rallying under their banner.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
Not being able to talk, I decided to write instead.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
I am too well aware of the human’s heart to hold grudge against anybody.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
How on earth should we fight against a school that has the power in its hand and promises perfect happiness to everybody?
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
It is really difficult for our prejudices to allow us, not only to judge correctly, but even to see the facts as they are.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
But have the rich on that account renounced the policy of plunder? It has never occurred to them. The argument of the indirect beneficial effects of spending continues to serve as their pretext.
POPULATION
But man is endowed with foresight, and hence his reason and his will are alone able to halt this disastrous trend.
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
It behooves the one who seeks the satisfaction to determine whether it is respectable, moral, reasonable, beneficial. The responsibility rests with him.
FREE CREDIT
For my part, I would a thousand times rather be condemned for my frankness than be seen as clearly lacking what is man’s finest quality, the one that defines his power and his essence.