The superfluous is the most necessary.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
What is not in nature can never be true.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.