Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.