Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix