Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.