The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Europe is a state with several provinces