Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

The act of God injures no one.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.