The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
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