Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

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

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.