Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.