There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Power should be a check on power.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.