In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.