Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
Europe is a state with several provinces
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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