Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Virtue is necessary to a republic.