"If I knew of something that would be useful to me, and at the same time harmful to my family, I would drive it out of my mind. If I knew of something that would be useful to my family, and harmful to …"

"The Romans were a nation of robbers, who, having robbed all the world, at last robbed themselves."

"It is not the people who are naturally corrupted, but the magistrates."

"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are only rather thoughtless: the old ones are corrupt."

"In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing."