Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it..

Law should be like death, which spares no one..

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and….

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have our….

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury..

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty..

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate..

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths..

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies..

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice..

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded..

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided..

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy..

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them..

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty..

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its r….

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth)..

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic r….

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two ….

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad..

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abo….