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

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.