Great Commanders Write Their Actions With Simplicity;

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

I Have Read Descriptions Of Paradise That Would Make Any Sensible Person Stop Wanting To Go There.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.

The Severity Of The Laws Prevents Their Execution.

The State Of Slavery Is In Its Own Nature Bad.