"Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood."

"Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sen…"

"Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hop…"

"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences…"

"Better it is to say that the government most comformable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and dispo…"

"The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow."

"In monarchies, policy effects great things with as little virtue as possible."

"Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual ad…"

"As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honour, so fear is necessary in a despotic government: with r…"

"There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing."