Reputation is the road to power

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Reputation is the road to power

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation