You have to study a great deal to know a little.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
There are three species of government republican, monarchical, and despotic.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
