In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Virtue has needs of limits.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Europe is a state with several provinces