You Have To Study A Great Deal

Experience Constantly Proves That Every Man Who Has Power Is Impelled To Abuse It; He Goes On Till He Is Pulled Up By Some Limits. Who Would Say It! Virtue Even Has Need Of Limits.

If We Only Wanted To Be Happy, It Would Be Easy; But We Want To Be Happier Than Other People, And That Is Almost Always Difficult, Since We Think Them Happier Than They Are.

Man Is A Social Animal Formed To Please In Society.

Power Ought To Serve As A Check To Power.

...when The Laws Have Ceased To Be Executed, As This Can Only Come From The Corruption Of The Republic, The State Is Already Lost.