Republics End Through Luxury; Monarchies Through Poverty.

Political Liberty Is To Be Found Only In Moderate Governments.

Thus The Creation, Which Seems An Arbitrary Act, Supposes Laws As Invariable As Those Of The Fatality Of The Atheists. It Would Be Absurd To Say That The Creator Might Govern The World Without Those Rules, Since Without Them It Could Not Subsist.

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.

The Life Of Man Is But A Succession Of Vain Hopes And Groundless Fears.

I Have Ever Held It As A Maxim Never To Do That Through Another Which It Was Impossible For Me To Execute Myself