Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.