Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.