Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
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.