If You Run After Wit, You Will

The English Are Busy Folk; They Have No Time In Which To Be Polite.

It Is Rare To Find Learned Men Who Are Clean, Do Not Stink And Have A Sense Of Humour.

As Virtue Is Necessary In A Republic, And Honor In A Monarchy, Fear Is What Is Required In A Despotism. As For Virtue, It Is Not At All Necessary, And Honor Would Be Dangerous There.

Countries Are Not Cultivated In Proportion To Their Fertility, But To Their Liberty.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.