Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

A born king is a very rare being.