Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

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.