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.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.