The Majority Of Men Are More Capable

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.

When The Savages Of Louisiana Wish To Have Fruit, They Cut The Tree At The Bottom And Gather The Fruit. That Is Exactly A Despotic Government.

When The [law Making] And [law Enforcement] Powers Are United In The Same Person... There Can Be No Liberty.

If You Would Be Holy, Instruct Your Children, Because All The Good Acts They Perform Will Be Imputed To You.

Society Is The Union Of Men And Not The Men Themselves.