The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.