Republics End Through Luxury; Monarchies

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

Brutes Are Deprived Of The High Advantages Which We Have; But They Have Some Which We Have Not. They Have Not Our Hopes, But Theyare Without Our Fears; They Are Subject Like Us To Death, But Without Knowing It; Even Most Of Them Are More Attentive Than We To Self-preservation, And Do Not Make So Bad A Use Of Their Passions.

A Man Who Writes Well Writes Not As Others Write, But As He Himself Writes; It Is Often In Speaking Badly That He Speaks Well.

As Men Are Affected In All Ages By The Same Passions, The Occasions Which Bring About Great Changes Are Different, But The Causes Are Always The Same.

When One Wants To Change Manners And Customs, One Should Not Do So By Changing The Laws.