As Men Are Affected In All Ages

When A Government Lasts A Long While, It Deteriorates By Insensible Degrees. Republics End Through Luxury, Monarchies Through Poverty.

It Is Not The Young People That Degenerate; They Are Not Spoiled Till Those Of Mature Age Are Already Sunk Into Corruption.

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.

There Are Countries Where A Man Is Worth Nothing; There Are Others Where He Is Worth Less Than Nothing.

If Triangles Had A God, He Would Have Three Sides.