The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.