To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.