When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

The first bond of society is marriage.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.