The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.