It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

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.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.