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.
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.