Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!