An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.