Our Failings Sometimes Bind Us To One

If It Is True That Vice Can Never Be Done Away With, The Science Of Government Consists Of Making It Contribute To The Public Good.

Sometimes A Lengthened Period Of Prosperity Melts Away In A Moment; Just As The Heat Of Summer Flies Before A Day Of Tempest.

Nothing Endures Except Truth.

It Is Good To Be Firm By Temperament And Pliant By Reflection.

The Generality Of Men Are So Bound Within The Sphere Of Their Circumstances That They Have Not Even The Courage To Get Out Of Them Through Their Ideas, And If We See A Few Whom, In A Way, Speculation Over Great Things Makes Incapable Of Mean Ones, We Find Still More With Whom The Practice Of Small Things Takes Away The Feeling For Great Ones.