It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.