The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

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

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Europe is a state with several provinces

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.