Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.