Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

The only shame is to have none.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.