A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.