An Injustice To One Is A Threat

At Our Coming Into The World We Contract An Immense Debt To Our Country, Which We Can Never Discharge.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

Political Liberty In A Citizen Is That Tranquillity Of Spirit Which Comes From The Opinion Each One Has Of His Security, And In Order For Him To Have This Liberty The Government Must Be Such That One Citizen Cannot Fear Another Citizen.

A Really Intelligent Man Feels What Other Men Only Know.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.