What Is More Immoral Than War?

It Requires Only Two Things To Win Credit For A Miracle: A Mountebank And A Number Of Silly Women.

Destruction, Hence, Like Creation, Is One Of Nature's Mandates.

Is It Not Of The Imagination That The Sharpest Pleasures Arise?

What I Should Like To Find Is A Crime The Effects Of Which Would Be Perpetual, Even When I Myself Do Not Act, So That There Would Not Be A Single Moment Of My Life Even When I Were Asleep, When I Was Not The Cause Of Some Chaos, A Chaos Of Such Proportions That It Would Provoke A General Corruption Or A Distubance So Formal That Even After My Death Its Effects Would Still Be Felt.

Are Not Laws Dangerous Which Inhibit The Passions? Compare The Centuries Of Anarchy With Those Of The Strongest Legalism In Any Country You Like And You Will See That It Is Only When The Laws Are Silent That The Greatest Actions Appear.