Republics End Through Luxury; Monarchies Through Poverty.

I Acknowledge That History Is Full Of Religious Wars: But We Must Distinguish; It Is Not The Multiplicity Of Religions Which Has Produced These Wars; It Was The Intolerating Spirit Which Animated That One Which Thought She Had The Power Of Governing.

Talent Is A Gift Which God Has Given Us Secretly, And Which We Reveal Without Perceiving It.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

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.

I Have Always Observed That To Succeed In The World One Should Seem A Fool, But Be Wise.