Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Very good laws may be ill timed.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.