It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.