The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Nature abhors annihilation.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.