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

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

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

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.