Our Greatest Misfortunes Come To Us From

Reason Deceives Us; Conscience, Never.

The Science Of Government Is Only A Science Of Combinations, Of Applications, And Of Exceptions, According To Times, Places And Circumstances.

Virtue Is A State Of War, And To Live In It We Have Always To Combat With Ourselves.

Man Is Born Free And Everywhere He Is In Chains.

The Tone Of Good Conversation Is Brilliant And Natural; It Is Neither Tedious Nor Frivolous; It Is Instructive Without Pedantry, Gay Without Tumultuousness, Polished Without Affectation, Gallant Without Insipidity, Waggish Without Equivocation.