Virtue has needs of limits.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.