All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

He who seeks equality between unequals, seeks an absurdity.

I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between par…