Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.