Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.