I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.