Perfect is the enemy of good.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

Paradise is where I am

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.