The English Are Busy; They Don't Have

Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

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

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

There Is Still Another Inconvenieney In Conquests Made By Democracies; Their Government Is Ever Odious To The Conquered States. It Is Apparently Monarchical, But In Reality It Is More Oppressive Than Monarchy, As The Experience Of All Ages And Countries Evinces.

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.