You Have To Study A Great Deal

Men, Who Are Rogues Individually, Are In The Mass Very Honorable People.

The Less Men Think, The More They Talk.

Law Should Be Like Death, Which Spares No One.

The Less Luxury There Is In A Republic, The More It Is Perfect.

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.