Patience Is So Like Fortitude

Men Are Swayed More By Fear Than By Reverence.

In Most Constitutional States The Citizens Rule And Are Ruled By Turns, For The Idea Of A Constitutional State Implies That The Natures Of The Citizens Are Equal, And Do Not Differ At All.

If The Poor, For Example, Because They Are More In Number, Divide Among Themselves The Property Of The Rich,- Is Not This Unjust? . . This Law Of Confiscation Clearly Cannot Be Just.

The Young Are Heated By Nature As Drunken Men By Wine.

A Good Style Must Have An Air Of Novelty, At The Same Time Concealing Its Art.