philosophy Quotes

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.