Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.