Republics Are Brought To Their Ends By

The History Of Commerce Is That Of The Communication Of The People.

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.

Liberty Is The Right To Do What The Law Permits.

I Have Read Descriptions Of Paradise That Would Make Any Sensible Person Stop Wanting To Go There.

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.