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

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.