Republics End Through Luxury; Monarchies Through Poverty.

Every Man Who Has Power Is Impelled To Abuse It.

I Like Peasants-they Are Not Sophisticated Enough To Reason Speciously.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.

Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are The Necessary Relations Derived From The Nature Of Things.

You Have To Study A Great Deal To Know A Little.