Law Should Be Like Death, Which Spares

The Life Of Man Is But A Succession Of Vain Hopes And Groundless Fears.

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.

The Public Business Must Be Carried On With A Certain Motion, Neither Too Quick Nor Too Slow.

Happy The People Whose Annals Are Tiresome.

In The Birth Of Societies It Is The Chiefs Of States Who Give It Its Special Character; And Afterward It Is This Special Character That Forms The Chiefs Of State.