Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.