Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.