Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.