When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.