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.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.