Solemnity Is The Shield Of Idiots

As Virtue Is Necessary In A Republic, And Honor In A Monarchy, Fear Is What Is Required In A Despotism. As For Virtue, It Is Not At All Necessary, And Honor Would Be Dangerous There.

The Ottoman Empire Whose Sick Body Was Not Supported By A Mild And Regular Diet, But By A Powerful Treatment, Which Continually Exhausted It.

Friendship Is An Arrangement By Which We Undertake To Exchange Small Favors For Big Ones.

There Have Never Been So Many Civil Wars As In The Kingdom Of Christ.

Liberty Is The Right To Do What The Law Permits.