To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.