"The women are much more powerful in those countries where they are allowed to appear in public."

"The inhabitants of warm countries are timid like old men; those of cold countries are courageous like young ones."

"The law, in its most general signification, 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 …"

"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war."

"When the body of the people in a republic possess the supreme power, this is called a democracy."