Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

What Cowardice It Is To Be Dismayed By The Happiness Of Others And Devastated By There Good Fortune.

The Public Business Must Be Carried On With A Certain Motion, Neither Too Quick Nor Too Slow.

With Truths Of A Certain Kind, It Is Not Enough To Make Them Appear Convincing: One Must Also Make Them Felt. Of Such Kind Are Moral Truths.

Countries Are Well Cultivated, Not As They Are Fertile, But As They Are Free.

Brutes Are Deprived Of The High Advantages Which We Have; But They Have Some Which We Have Not. They Have Not Our Hopes, But Theyare Without Our Fears; They Are Subject Like Us To Death, But Without Knowing It; Even Most Of Them Are More Attentive Than We To Self-preservation, And Do Not Make So Bad A Use Of Their Passions.