Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.