No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

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