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

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.

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

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.