Virtue has needs of limits.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

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

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.