No arts, no letters - no society.

The reputation of power IS power.

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.