Solemnity Is The Shield Of Idiots

Democracy Has Two Excesses To Avoid: The Spirit Of Inequality, Which Leads To An Aristocracy, Or To The Government Of A Single Individual; And The Spirit Of Extreme Equality, Which Conducts It To Despotism, As The Despotism Of A Single Individual Finishes By Conquest.

There Is No Nation So Powerful, As The One That Obeys Its Laws Not From Principals Of Fear Or Reason, But From Passion.

Useless Laws Weaken The Necessary Laws.

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 Ruins.

Countries Are Well Cultivated, Not As They Are Fertile, But As They Are Free.