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

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

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

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.