The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.