The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
There is nothing god cannot do.
Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.