Virtue Has Needs Of Limits.

If You Run After Wit, You Will Succeed In Catching Folly.

The Love Of Study Is In Us The Only Lasting Passion. All The Others Quit Us In Proportion As This Miserable Machine Which Holds Them Approaches Its Ruins.

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

Virtue In A Republic Is The Love Of One's Country, That Is The Love Of Equality.

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