 If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. |
| An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. |
| The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. |
| There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. |
| The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. |
| I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. |
| The severity of the laws prevents their execution. |
| Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. |
| Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. |
| Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. |
| There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. |
| It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. |
| Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. |
| If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. |
| In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. |
| Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. |
