Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.