One Should Never Despair Too Soon.

If I Wished To Punish A Province, I Would Have It Governed By Philosophers.

Be More Than You Seem To Be.

I Have No Fault To Find With Those Who Teach Geometry. That Science Is The Only One Which Has Not Produced Sects; It Is Founded On Analysis And On Synthesis And On The Calculus; It Does Not Occupy Itself With The Probable Truth; Moreover It Has The Same Method In Every Country.

No Government Can Exist Without Taxation. The Money Must Necessarily Be Levied On The People; And The Grand Art Consists Of Levying So As Not To Oppress.

A Man, Who Can, In Cold Blood, Hunt And Torture A Poor, Innocent Animal, Cannot Feel Much Compassion For The Distress Of His Own Species.