Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Unavailable wars are always just.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.