Solemnity Is The Shield Of Idiots

Wonderful Maxim: Not To Talk Of Things Any More After They Are Done.

When The [law Making] And [law Enforcement] Powers Are United In The Same Person... There Can Be No Liberty.

Power Ought To Serve As A Check To Power.

The Wickedness Of Mankind Makes It Necessary For The Law To Suppose Them Better Than They Really Are.

If One Only Wished To Be Happy, This Could Be Easily Accomplished; But We Wish To Be Happier That Other People, And This Is Always Difficult, For We Believe Others To Be Happier Than They Are. You Are Comparing Your Lot With An Ideal Which Is Of Course Better And Therefore You Feel Worse