If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.