All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.