» Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
» It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
» We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
» There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
» The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
» The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
» 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.
» Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
» Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.