There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.