Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Virtue has needs of limits.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.