Luxury Ruins Republics; Poverty, Monarchies.

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.

In Republican Governments, Men Are All Equal; Equal They Are Also In Despotic Governments: In The Former, Because They Are Everything; In The Latter, Because They Are Nothing.

There Should Be Weeping At A Man's Birth, Not At His Death.

Countries Are Not Cultivated In Proportion To Their Fertility, But To Their Liberty.

I Like Peasants-they Are Not Sophisticated Enough To Reason Speciously.