Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better..

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose fa….

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer..

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws..

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides..

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking a….

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you..

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels..

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise..

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite..

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain..

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another..

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones..

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk..

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way ….

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words..

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not….

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption..

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the exec….

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each dive….

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: t….