In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.