"It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislatio…"

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers. Tel se croit le maître des autres, qui ne laisse pas d’…"

"The family then may be called the first model of political societies: the ruler corresponds to the father, and the pe…"

"The reasoning of Caligula agrees with that of Hobbes and Grotius. Aristotle, before any of them, had said that men ar…"

"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude, as the comr…"

"The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience int…"

"Now, a man who becomes the slave of another does not give himself; he sells himself, at the least for his subsistence…"

"Tranquility is found also in dungeons; but is that enough to make them desirable places to live in? To say that a man…"

"The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. If war does not give the conqueror the…"

"Every people, to which its situation gives no choice save that between commerce and war, is weak in itself: it depend…"