A Rational Army Would Run Away.

An Author Is A Fool Who, Not Content With Boring Those He Lives With, Insists On Boring Future Generations.

A Man Who Writes Well Writes Not As Others Write, But As He Himself Writes; It Is Often In Speaking Badly That He Speaks Well.

Law In General Is Human Reason, Inasmuch As It Governs All The Inhabitants Of The Earth: The Political And Civil Laws Of Each Nation Ought To Be Only The Particular Cases In Which Human Reason Is Applied.

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.

If I Knew Of Something That Could Serve My Nation But Would Ruin Another, I Would Not Propose It To My Prince, For I Am First A Man And Only Then A Frenchman... Because I Am Necessarily A Man, And Only Accidentally Am I French.