Law should be like death, which spares no one.
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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.
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.